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Shveta Thakrar

@shvetathakrar.com

Desi mythopoetess. Author of Nebula Award finalist STAR DAUGHTER, THE DREAM RUNNERS, and DIVINING THE LEAVES. Also INTO THE MOON GARDEN (Audible). https://shvetathakrar.com/

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Michael A. Stackpole 🇺🇦@michaelastackpole.bsky.social · 5h ago

The Chain Story Project has just released a new story by Luana Saitta, Why Crimson Cora Hates Wizards. You will love it. Please read, enjoy, like and share. (Sharing makes it possible for us to bring you free fiction!) And thank you. www.chainstorycore.com/blog/why-crimson-cora-hates-wizards

Why Crimson Cora Hates Wizards — The Chain Story

Everyone fears Crimson Cora, save her captor, who is eagerly awaiting her death—for her to be nibbled to pieces by foul denizens of the sea. This is a delightful tale by Luana Saitta which you shall t...

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Shveta Thakrar@shvetathakrar.com · 11h ago

That feeling when you open your e-mail to find a message from your bank suggesting you link your account to LLMs. That's a huge no from me (and I replied to say as much).

Jeff VanderMeer@jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · yesterday

Generative AI psychosis and delusion is a real thing, as is the degradation of analytical skills. This increasingly makes conversations difficult with those who have "converted" to using it. Along with the clickbait-ification of everything and the adoption of predatory logarithms. Stay vigilant.

Leanna Renee Hieber@leannareneehieber.bsky.social · 6d ago

SO EXCITED TO BE IN THIS AMAZING COMPANY! #Romancelandia friends, Historical Fantasy & #Romantasy friends, join us!

Bookstore Romance Day@handle.invalid · last wk.

On Saturday, August 15 at 4 PM EDT, join authors @evaleigh.bsky.social, @stephanieburgis.bsky.social, @clpolk.com, @leannareneehieber.bsky.social, @natania.bsky.social, & @meganf.bsky.social for a virtual panel focused on Historical Fantasy Romance. Tix at link. www.eventbrite.com/e/1995804119...

Shveta Thakrar@shvetathakrar.com · 6d ago

Deadline tomorrow for the final draft of my next novel, so I'll be up late tonight, using only my brain, imagination, and fingers to finish revising that last chapter. 🧛‍♀️📕. (This is an anti-LLM post. I'm quite pleased with my brain and the ability I've honed over many years, thank you very much.)

Adam Christopher@adamchristopher.me · 2w ago

It should have been $150,000 per title. It should have put Anthropic out of business and made me and other authors financially secure enough to keep writing and keep creating and keep fighting. We’re getting a token gesture. Anthropic won here. They pay a pittance (for them) and can do it again.

Victoria Strauss@victoriastrauss.com · 2w ago

New #WriterBeware blog post: the Anthropic class action copyright settlement has been approved. Top takeaways from the judge's ruling, who's the biggest winner, and when claimants might (or might not) see the money writerbeware.blog/2026/07/23/a...

Leanna Renee Hieber@leannareneehieber.bsky.social · last mo.

Update: Some pieces have sold, cats that remain are all 1-of-a-kind! Note additional black cat cameo is on an antique, ruffly organza collar! torchandarrow.etsy.com Thanks so much for your support of our tiny shop! This helps keep me afloat between my ghost-filled book deadlines & shows, thank you!

Panel of 5 jewelry pieces, upper left: a black cat cameo in a pewter tone frame 30x40mm size set on a ruffly sheer antique organza ribbon as a statement piece / collar / bib necklace $26.90, to the right, a Black Cat cameo on white resin on a brass frame with a brass rose beneath, large 30x40mm cameo and 18 inch brass chain $23.99, to the right, a pair of silver-tone cat head earrings on vintage silver-tone medallions with black faceted crystals on ear wires, $21.99, to the right, a unique bib necklace assembled from an antique black beaded applique from the late 1890s / early 1900s with a black cat cameo 30x40mm at center, with three black faceted beads below on gunmetal chain, 51.99 free shipping, to the right, a black cat cameo on white resin, 30x40mm cameo with an antiqued silver-tone rose blossom below, on 18 inch chain, $21.90 https://torchandarrow.etsy.com
Leanna Renee Hieber@leannareneehieber.bsky.social · last mo.

Appreciate this, @catsofyore.bsky.social! Sales at our shop have been SO slow this season, so any interest would be hugely helpful to our fully artistic household! Here are the shop cats of Torch & Arrow! All of our accessories are 1-of-a-kind (save for our Dr. Who lanyards)! torchandarrow.etsy.com

Panel of 6 jewelry pieces, upper left: a white cat pendant on Wedgwood-style blue resin in a neo-Victorian silver-tone scalloped and filigree frame with an 18-inch chain $21.70, to the right, a Black Cat cameo on white resin on a brass frame with a brass rose beneath, large 30x40mm cameo and 18 inch brass chain $23.99, to the right, "Cat Saint Christopher", a cat cameo pendant with a white cat on Wedgwood blue resin with a silver St. Christopher protection medallion below on 18 inch chain, $21.99, below, a pair of silver-tone cat head earrings on vintage silver-tone medallions with black faceted crystals on ear wires, $21.99, to the right, a unique bib necklace assembled from an antique black beaded applique from the late 1890s / early 1900s with a black cat cameo 30x40mm at center, with three black faceted beads below on gunmetal chain, 51.99 free shipping, to the right, a black cat cameo on white resin, 30x40mm cameo with an antiqued silver-tone rose blossom below, on 18 inch chain, $21.90 https://torchandarrow.etsy.com
Anita 🧜🏽‍♀️🏴‍☠️🪐@mythopoetica.bsky.social · last mo.

Okay, it is July the first so the promo price of USD4.99 is reactivated again till January 2027 for the ebook version. 💙📚

Anita 🧜🏽‍♀️🏴‍☠️🪐@mythopoetica.bsky.social · 2y ago

An epic revisitation of the myth of Cupid and Psyche as seen through the eyes of a memory-wiped storytelling mermaid-siren living in a house-share with an automaton-building Javanese engineer with a traumatic past. 🧜‍♀️ #Booksky 💙 📚 #Romancelandia mythopoetica.com/2024/09/01/p...

The cover of Watermyth by Anita Harris Satkunananthan has a woman in silhouette (Finora) with her hair in a bun, resting one hand on the balustrades of her balcony as she stares at a neighbouring Palazzo.
Leanna Renee Hieber@leannareneehieber.bsky.social · last mo.

@romancingthevote.com is OPEN! Buy-it-nows for my STRANGELY BEAUTIFUL prequel & finale will post later, but my 1ST EDITIONS are ready for you! The books won 3 Prism-Awards for Excellence in Fantasy Romance ( #Romantasy!), B&N & Borders Bestsellers & I'd love to sign these out-of-print copies to you!

Leanna Renee Hieber@leannareneehieber.bsky.social · last mo.

1st Editions now on view @romancingthevote.com! Noteworthy in that it's a great example of Romantasy before it was a word & early cross-genre trends, book 2 has 3 genres on spine! The listing to watch: www.32auctions.com/organization... This series exists in print now via Tor as STRANGELY BEAUTIFUL

Soen Ordo 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈@soenordo.bsky.social · last mo.

🚨⚠️SHIT GOT BAD REAL FAST⚠️🚨 So the house passed it, call your senators. We have a singular final chance to stop this. CALL.👏 NOW. 👏OR.👏 THE. 👏NET. 👏WILL. 👏DIE. You can tell how bad shit has gotten because I am pulling out the Emojis to try and get this to spread far and wide. Badinternetbills.com

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All of the bad internet bills. One website.

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Soen Ordo 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈@soenordo.bsky.social · last mo.

Before any of you all go "BuT tHiS wOn'T aFfEcT mE", yes if will. It will affect EVERYONE. Not jusy here on bluesky, on EVERY. FUCKING. WEBSITE. You would have to give up your fucking ID info just to use ANYTHING on the internet. It's mass surveillance. theintercept.com/2026/06/28/a...

Rob Sheridan@rob-sheridan.com · last mo.

The thing about social media age restrictions is that it treats today’s internet as an inevitability we all just have to deal with. The internet (and the WORLD) wasn’t like this until like four dudes were allowed to own & monetize as much tech real estate as they wanted. Fix THAT problem.

Leanna Renee Hieber@leannareneehieber.bsky.social · last mo.

To catch you up on my Muse musings ahead of my "WOW! Signal" review/essay, read this "25 Years of Weird Sh*t Muse Taught Me" piece I wrote for the 25th Anniversary of their debut, Showbiz: nighttidemag.com/2024/11/27/m... Thanks to @nighttidemag.bsky.social for being such a great home for the weird!

25 YEARS OF WEIRD SH!T MUSE TAUGHT ME

This September marks the 25th anniversary of Showbiz, the debut album from the hard-to-pin-down, expansive, genre-bending British alternative rock band Muse. Showbiz was released on September 7th, …

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Leanna Renee Hieber@leannareneehieber.bsky.social · last mo.

Since there are 20+ likes on these 1st editions, I assume it'll garner a decent bid for beloved @romancingthevote.com, so I'll fill out the auction form for them! Early next month I'll be announcing a *very cool* adaptation option clause we're in the midst of selling for these debut books-of-my-💙:

Leanna Renee Hieber@leannareneehieber.bsky.social · 2mo ago

#BookSky & #Romancelandia, help me gauge if there's any interest in these for @romancingthevote.com auction? 1st edition Dorchester Mass-Markets of my award-winning, bestselling STRANGELY BEAUTIFUL saga (Romantasy before it was cool). Book 2 was 1 of the first romances to have 2 genres on the spine!

The blue first Mass Market 2009 Dorchester edition of the now renamed STRANGELY BEAUTIFUL saga, a misty London fog embankment with the clock tower cover of THE STRANGELY BEAUTIFUL TALE OF MISS PERCY PARKER by in gold script, to the right, the red cover with a tree and the same look at Parliament along embankment in London with a different angle, with eerie eyes in the fog, the title THE DARKLY LUMINOUS FIGHT FOR PERSEPHONE PARKER is in light blue with Leanna Renee Hieber in white text.
Leanna Renee Hieber@leannareneehieber.bsky.social · last mo.

Sale reminder! For 'zon Prime members, our truly beautiful AMERICA'S MOST GOTHIC hardcovers are 20% off through 6/26 only! Link posted below:

Leanna stares in Perky Goth Manor at camera, an Edgar Allan Poe pendant around her neck, a copy of AMERICA'S MOST GOTHIC in her right hand, a porcelain ghost mug who is holding a black cat in her left hand, a Dracula poster behind her shoulder and a poster for Leanna's first Gothic novel, STRANGELY BEAUTIFUL, over her right shoulder
Leanna Renee Hieber@leannareneehieber.bsky.social · 2mo ago

#BookSky! I rarely link to the 'zon but I promised our publicity department that I'd let everyone know about the Prime Day deal going on through next week for AMERICA'S MOST GOTHIC, our Stoker-nominated, bestselling non-fiction examining ghosts via Gothic literature! www.amazon.com/Americas-Mos...

Shveta Thakrar@shvetathakrar.com · 2mo ago

I'm trying! YA: STAR DAUGHTER (a Nebula finalist!) THE DREAM RUNNERS DIVINING THE LEAVES Adult: INTO THE MOON GARDEN Lots of short stories, too. www.shvetathakrar.com

Shveta Thakrar

Shveta Thakrar - Margical YA Author & Desi Mythopoetess. Contemporary Fantasy Novel STAR DAUGHTER Out 2020 from HarperTeen!

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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf@eliaseells.bsky.social · 2mo ago

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